Re: White House chastised for use of security technology

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Forwarded from: "Bill Scherr IV, GSEC, GCIA" <bschnzl () cotse net>

Watch your sources folks...

Not only was Zoe Baird a Clinton Appointee, but she served on the
President's Foriegn Intelligence Advisory Board at the time when 
a) we were supposed to be tracking Saddam Hussien's WMD potential and 
b) we let Osama bin whatshisface go scot free, twice.

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Zoe_Baird

James Barksdale let potentially the most lucrative software market
since the OS slip through his hands.

These two are lecturing on network innovation?  One doesn't know how
to use information and the other failed to exercise his technological
leadership position.  And whoda thunk they'd be criticising Bush...
Yep, no independence issues here...

My $0.02

B.


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> http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1203/120203tdpm1.htm
>
> By Drew Clark
> National Journal's Technology Daily 
> December 2, 2003
>
> The Bush administration has failed to effectively use information
> technology in the war on terrorism, according to officials at the
> Markle Foundation, who on Tuesday proposed creating a homeland
> security information network.
>
> "They have not yet taken advantage of technological expertise"  
> available in this country, said Zoe Baird, president of the New
> York-based foundation. "The government can set up a network that
> improves our ability to prevent terrorism and protect civil
> liberties."
>
> After articulating nearly a dozen perceived weaknesses in current
> information-sharing systems, the group suggested the creation of a
> System-wide Homeland Analysis and Resource Exchange (SHARE)  
> Network designed to couple Silicon Valley know-how with low-tech law
> enforcement and intelligence databases.
>
> Markle also urged greater clarity from the administration about the
> proper delineation of responsibilities between the Terrorist Threat
> Integration Center (TTIC) overseen by the director of intelligence
> and the Homeland Security Department, and the foundation said
> privacy principles must be incorporated into any new intelligence
> network.
>
> The recommendations came from a report issued Tuesday by the
> foundation's task force on national security, which Baird co-chaired
> with James Barksdale, a venture capitalist and former CEO of
> Netscape.  An October 2002 report from the task force said better
> information sharing is necessary to fight terrorism.


Bill Scherr IV, GSEC, GCIA
EWA / Information & Infrastructure Technologies
National Guard Regional Technology Center / Norwich Campus



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